Top News

Another game revealed during the Level-5 Vision 2016 event was Lady Layton, which is like Professor Layton, except: The full title is Lady Layton: The Conspiracy of King Millionaire Ariadne, and it stars none other than Professor Layton's daughter...

During Level-5 Vision 2016 the company announced Lady Layton, an upcoming puzzle adventure for Nintendo 3DS, Android, and iPhone. The trailer showed some of its gameplay along with a look at a variety of characters, including the protagonist who t...

Weekly Shounen Jump! Issue #35 has revealed that the upcoming Issue #36/37, which is a double issue, will have two of the magazine's most popular manga ending. Yes, we finally know when both Tite Kubo's Bleach and Naoshi Komi's Nisekoi, which have...

Pokémon Go is in the news - everywhere. As an assistant elementary school English language teacher, I'm used to surprising my Japanese students, but one sentence never fails to make their eyes go wide with horror: "When I was your age, there were ...

In a quick look at this year's 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump, it was revealed that magazine has announced that two of its popular running manga series will be ending in its next issue: Naoshi Komi's Nisekoi and Tite Kubo's Bleach.

Nearly 20 years after recording the original theme for the Pokémon anime, Jason Paige returned to the studio for this video and another crack at 90s kids' most beloved anthem. And he pretty much nailed it.

One of Japan's most famous gamers tops all other performances we've ever seen by marching and drumming up a storm, clearing the song without looking at the screen. If we could choose any arcade game to watch players perfect in Japan, we'd pull up ...

At Anime Expo this year, we had the opportunity to sit down with the Japanese crew and English cast of My Hero Academia. Director Kenji Nagasaki, producer Wakana Okamura, the voice of Midoriya Justin Briner, and the voice of All Might Chris Sabat ...

The tickets for BAND-MAID "Brand New MAID" Release Tour World Series Europe dates will be available tomorrow, Friday July 29th 2016 at 10:00 AM CEST. Check below to see where to get yours, and make sure to get yours before the shows get sold out!

Jul28 Bad things can happen when you stalk a weird girl What the hell is this? Highway doesn't do manga reviews! Well, truth is that I haven't really read a lot of manga, but for some reason in the past half-year or so I've been reading a few.

A small portion of the OP animation for upcoming chibi RPG "World of Final Fantasy" (as well as footage of the musical theme being recorded) has been unveiled online, boasting its usual cutesy visuals that some watchers have naturally had difficul...

The LONG rollout of team cast for the fall TV anime adaptation Shiori Amase's distinctive-looking high school rugby manga ALL OUT! ! is finally complete. So, it's now time for a preview! Kenichi Shimizu (Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punish...

Throughout the centuries, pet cats and pet goldfish often don't go well together as the latter often ends up inside the belly of the former. This seems to be a similar case with Pokemon GO, as a player finds a goldfish Pokemon known as Goldeen, an...

A serial stabbing at a care center for the disabled in Sagamihara has left 19 dead (9 women and 10 men aged between 18 and 70) and 26 grievously wounded, a horrific event that the murderer himself has described as his attempt to "rid this world of...

By Jenni . July 27, 2016 . 8:45am Yakuza 0 has a launch date. People in North America and Europe will be able to grab a digital or physical copy of the PlayStation 4 game on January 24, 2017. In addition, an official website has been launched.

NIS America announced today that they're bringing the RPG visual novel hybrid game by Syupro-DX, called The Longest Five Minutes, to the West in 2017 for PlayStation Vita and PC via Steam. To give you a summary on what The Longest Five Minutes is ...

Canton's Palace Theatre will host an Anime Weekend with five feature films Friday through Sunday. Admission is $6 per movie, $18 per day Saturday and Sunday, and $40 for the entire weekend, including an after-party onstage.

'集いへの誘い～簡単に言うとモテたい～' (Tsudoi e no Sasoi: Kantan ni Iu to Motetai ) "An Invite to a Meeting ~Simply Put, I Just Want to Be Popular~" You want anime? I got your anime right here. This was the first episode of Mob Psycho 100 that I truly came into co...

This felt like a very useful episode. Not only did it somewhat serve as a breather, but we also got a ton of Illya card installs. Leading to a pretty entertaining showdown with Kuro. I do think Illya did need a bit of a kick in the pants and a rem...

Revered instant ramen manufacturer Nissin Ramen has bombarded the internet with a unique new advert that has attempted to blend as many attention-grabbing CM staples together as possible, sure to be generating notoriety and profits as well as laug...

During its Vision Event 2016, Level-5 has announced an all-new media property called Megaton Musashi. The new sci-fi series will have an anime, toy line, and a game for Nintendo 3DS coming in summer 2017.

Yesterday, we discovered that Nep-Nep Connect: Chaos Chanpuru was going to be a F2P Card Battler for the PlayStation Vita. Today, Compile Heart has released a teaser trailer for the game. The trailer shows off various screens from the game and lot...

This week, the September issue of magazine Shonen Ace is wrapping up a pair of action manga. Future Diary author Sakae Esuno's 2011 Big Order, inspiration for last season's TV anime, gets an epilogue chapter in the October issue, out August 26th.

As we've talked about a bit, the 2006 anime TV series Zegapain is getting a new compilation film produced that's set for an October 15th, 2016 theatrical launch as Zegapain ADP. We've had some minor promotion for it before and now Bandai Visual is...

Even more rough and ready characters have have been announced for All Out! ! , an upcoming TV anime based on the rugby manga by Shiori Amase. The new cast members announced include: Daiki Hamano as Hirokuni Kasuga.

According to the notice posted to regalia-anime. jp, it's cancelled after 4 episodes (h/t sage). Or at least that's how I read "第４話をもって、放送をいったん終了とさせて頂きます。" I don't recall a debacle like that recently. Even when Yamakan was booted from directing Lu...

Everyone's surprised that "Pokemon Go" is getting people out from behind their screens and out of the house. But Japanese animated creations have a much longer tradition of sending people on real-world adventures, although in a very different way.